[throwaway5Am1k]

>you have no idea which to pick and then you don’t bother and leave the site. No casual user is ever going to leave Reddit for Lemmy.

This is a feature in my opinion. Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit). It's taboo, but gatekeeping communities is absolutely required to stop mass adoption and the downward spiral. Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.

[rewmie]

> This is a feature in my opinion.

I tried to join a server.

Went through a long list of them. I was confused on which to pick, and if that decision mattered, and what would be the security implications of it.

I finally picked one reluctantly. The server was down.

Not a great feature. Feels more like a bug.

> Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit).

Nonsense. Mass adoption means it's the place to go to consume and produce content.

If the feature of Lemmy you single out as being better is that no one uses it then I'm not sure what would be the point of joining, or why are you promoting the service so that others join.

> Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.

No it wasn't. At best, it was different.

And people like me are leaving 2023 Reddit, not 2010 Reddit. What we want is an alternative to today's service, not nostalgia.

[Nasreddin_Hodja]

> I tried to join a server.

This is already a failure. There is no need to join unless you find a topic you want participate in. And you event don't have to, you can even use a mastodon (pleroma, friendica, e.t.c.) account if you already have it if you just want to leave a comment in a thread.